Re: Colon in alias appears to be breaking task compltion

[Steve Dondley <s@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-09-05 12:02 PM, Steve Dondley wrote:
> My alias A for taskwarrior:
> alias taa='task +st +sn add'
>
> My alias B for taskwarrior:
> alias tai="task +imm +st due:1h add"
>
> Alias A works fine with tab completion. "taa proj<tab>" completes the
> word "project" as expected.
>
> Alias B does not work: with "tai proj<tab>" there is no tab completion
> for the word "project".
>
> I can get alias B to work if I remove the "due:1h" bit from the right
> hand side of Alias B. So it appears the colon is causing issues.
>
> Workaround?

The problem is occurring even without using an alias.

This does not autocomplete:

task add due:1h project:To<tab>

It does, however, work just find in bash.